Newton or Faraday were creating new knowledge not to sell them or to get rich. Today it is rather about the economy of innovations. In other words, we do not produce knowledge, but innovations that are sold.

A good model can give a reasonable forecast in the field of its competence, subject to maintaining the existing economic relations, can identify threats to established order, but it does not allow to predict what will replace this order after the crisis.

The name “Strategies” (no “Forecasts”, for example) has deep meaning. In our unstable time it is practically impossible to make long-term predictions. However, we can imagine possible scenarios, choose among them the “desired” one and act in this direction — this is the “strategy”.

The national policy in the field of education, held in Russia, calls for the development and implementation of new methods and forms of education, as well as structural reforms.

It is very difficult to cope with high-quality daily work (not heavy unskilled physical labor, but labor in the broadest possible interpretation), when tomorrow we have to work a little longer and a little better than today.

The Kremlin was left no choice but to return to a policy of “colonization of the village”, which was held earlier by S.J. Vitte while realizing industrialization — in other ways it was repeated in the 1930-s. But from 1947 till 1949 a series of measures were undertaken that made the peasants’ situation mournful.

Relationship of times is an objective category. Do we like it or not, we all come from the past, though often we are not on good terms with the experience, the son of difficult errors.

The ferocity of battles had brought Hitler to the decision, which he expressed on July, 4 at a military conference in the Belarussian town of Borisov: to destroy Moscow with its inhabitants

Our economy today is not in a position to renounce hydrocarbon exports — either from political or economic reasons. And it would have been unjustified.

The subjectlessness has affected in varying degree all the major players of the modernization process (state, public and political communities, social institutions).